Re: Question: Using floating point in the kernel

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 19:30:06 EST

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> long int radians = (long) (2.0 * 3.141592654 * (float) HZ);

Just out of curiosity: what's that cast to float about? Have it spring
into the eye of a casual reader? That pi constant already is a double
and C implicitly casts to the type with the wider range/higher
precision.

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Matthias Andree
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